Rethinking the American Prison Movement / Edition 1

Rethinking the American Prison Movement / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
1138786853
ISBN-13:
9781138786851
Pub. Date:
10/26/2017
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
1138786853
ISBN-13:
9781138786851
Pub. Date:
10/26/2017
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Rethinking the American Prison Movement / Edition 1

Rethinking the American Prison Movement / Edition 1

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Overview

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138786851
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/26/2017
Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Roots: Challenging Prison Slavery and Political Repression, 1865–1940

Chapter 2: Rights: Fighting Prison Jim Crow, 1940–1968

Chapter 3: Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968–1972

Chapter 4: Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1973–1980

Chapter 5: Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison Movement, 1980–1998

Conclusion

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